We made our first attempt at Italian gardening this weekend! We went to the Home Depot-type store here in Bologna and picked out a little flower box to hang from our balcony and two geranium plants to start our "garden" with (the first picture). Apparently geraniums are suppose to help keep away flies and mosquitoes. I'm not sure how well our two tiny plants are going to contribute to bug prevention, but we'll see. All in all, I feel like it was a good start. I'll try to give an update in a couple of weeks as to how well we kept them alive!
Of course, our attempt is quite meager compared to the Italians around us. Our next door neighbors (a precious older couple who also can fill our whole apartment building with the most incredible aromas when cooking!) have learned how to maximize our 3 x 6 balconies (see picture number 2).
A few lucky apartments actually have terraces. Then you get to pretend you have a real yard and plant bushes and trees. . . We have really enjoyed the first floor apartments in our building who do a great job maintaining their urban gardens (that's the last one).
Such a different life we live now! We're learning more about how to steal little pieces of suburban life
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